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One night in April 2020 desperately battling Covid 19, a 60-year-old heating contractor who had come down with the corona virus weeks before and had been self-quarantining at his shop because he did not want to risk bringing the virus home where his 86 yr. old mother was living with him at the time.
Too afraid of going to the hospital for fear of never coming back. He decided he was going to "ride this out" there.
He had a very high fever, was suffering from severe hypoxia, (low blood oxygen), and had almost no strength left after three weeks of struggling to breathe and battling to keep his head above water.
The strange thing was he had one line, like a lyric from an old song you cannot get out of your head, that kept running over and over in his mind the entire time. Reminiscent of a silly limerick he had heard as a child "One bright day in the middle of the night". with one slight difference....
And that difference made that line stick to his brain like fly paper! And it just would not leave him alone!
In a deluded state of mind, befuddled by his lack of oxygen, compounded by his inability to sleep, completely unsure of where it came from or what it was supposed to mean, he was not even sure if it was real or if he had imagined the whole thing. What with it being the only line stuck in his head, and nothing else to hint at what the next line could or should possibly be, he had no clue what was about to happen!
Having finally had enough and knowing that he would not get a wink of sleep or possibly go nuts in the process, he just had to do something! He got up in the middle of the night, sat down at his computer, and typed out this one line that had been tormenting him for weeks not knowing what it would lead to.
Suddenly, after typing the first line the rest of the story just spilled out and it was completed in less than twenty minutes' time!
He had written in this short amount of time the story from which these books were derived.
And most amazing of all, it was written in limerick format! Just like the original story he had remembered from so long ago! It was both similar and yet completely different at the same time!
Having never written anything more substantial than an occasional email rant to his cellular provider and having barely passed English in school, this was completely out of character for this 60-year-old blue collar worker. "I hate paperwork" he said "arthritis makes using the keypad difficult"
"But it was like someone else was dictating the story to me and I was just typing it out!" He explained "It couldn't have been easier!" "Before I knew it, I was done, and I'd only been at it for twenty minutes or so!" he said " And it was like the poem I remembered in style but so different in content!"” It was amazing!” " I have no Idea where the story came from!" "And boy afterward I slept like a baby!" he remembered.
"It must have been my guardian angels!" he said. I think they helped to save my life!" he said. "They knew I'd be curious enough to stick around to see how the story ended!" "So they gave me just enough to pique my curiosity."
Could the virus have allowed him to access a creative part of the brain he had never tapped into before? Had this come from someone or something outside his own imagination? Did he channel a Children's book writer? Did the author of the original limerick come back with a fresh idea to give us another poem of contradictions? Or was this direction from some deity? Guardian angels?........
We may never know.
Destined to be part of the great book of enigmas we can only read, enjoy and wonder about.
Please enjoy this book, although essentially a children's book it should appeal to absolutely everyone!
These books are dedicated to everyone touched by this pandemic no matter how. From those we lost, to those heroes that took care of the sick, the first responders who carried on through it all, those who kept the world turning with essential services, to those whose lives were put on hold because of this never-before-in-our-lifetime event.
We all were touched by this in different ways, and some of our responses were truely amazing.
Here is just one more way this touched one person with a bright twist.
After recovering, the author created these books from an excerpt of the story he had written wanting to share this amazing story and this incredible episode in his life with the world!
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